03-20-2019, 08:43 AM
Extremist are a dime a dozen these days. From Anti-Vaxers, to Climate Alarmist.
For F sakes, anyone who has a moderate opinion is thrown into one extreme camp or the other.
It's so bad now, if you hold the position that many vaccines are good but a few are questionanle, you're a science denier and tossed into the anti vaccine crowd.
Hell for that matter, if you thing surgery is great for life threatening conditions but you're not so keen on cosmetic surgery, you're tossed into the extremist pile of being anti-modern medicine.
If you hold the view that natural climate change is just a fact of reality but that anthropogenic climate change is negligible with regard to CO2 yet think micro plastics in the ocean have a far worse impact on anthropogenic climate change, you're tossed into the Anti-science bin.
If you point out the connections between politics influence in research, you're tossed into the radical right wing anti science bin.
It's effing pathetic. Real meaningful discourse is no lknger possible in this country because too many people are far too emotionally invested in issues that should be adressed through thought rather than emotion.
For F sakes, anyone who has a moderate opinion is thrown into one extreme camp or the other.
It's so bad now, if you hold the position that many vaccines are good but a few are questionanle, you're a science denier and tossed into the anti vaccine crowd.
Hell for that matter, if you thing surgery is great for life threatening conditions but you're not so keen on cosmetic surgery, you're tossed into the extremist pile of being anti-modern medicine.
If you hold the view that natural climate change is just a fact of reality but that anthropogenic climate change is negligible with regard to CO2 yet think micro plastics in the ocean have a far worse impact on anthropogenic climate change, you're tossed into the Anti-science bin.
If you point out the connections between politics influence in research, you're tossed into the radical right wing anti science bin.
It's effing pathetic. Real meaningful discourse is no lknger possible in this country because too many people are far too emotionally invested in issues that should be adressed through thought rather than emotion.